A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
Nathaniel HawthorneMany writers lay very great stress upon some definite moral purpose, at which they profess to aim their works.
Nathaniel HawthorneLanguage,-human language,-after all is but little better than the croak and cackle of fowls, and other utterances of brute nature,-sometimes not so adequate.
Nathaniel HawthorneBefore this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilized society, a prison.
Nathaniel Hawthorne